Apparatus for vaporizing and burning hydrocarbon oils



(No Model.) 2 sheets-sheet 1. D. BRADSHAW & J. M. ASHLEY. APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING AND BURNING HYDROGARBON OILS.

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D. BRADSHAW & J. M. ASHLEY. APPARATUS FOR VAPQRIZING AND BURNIAIG HYDROGARBON OILS.

No. 437,969. Patented 001;. 7, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'FFICE.

DOUGLAS BRADSHAW, OF ROCKPORT, AND JAMES M. ASHLEY, OF

- BOONVILLE, INDIANA.

APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING AND BURNING HYDROCARBON OILS.-

SPEGIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,969, dated October 7, 1890.

Application filed January 15 1890- Serial No. 336,967, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that W6,DOUGLAS BRADSHAW and JAMES M. ASHLEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Rockport and Boonville, respectively, in the counties of Spencer and Narrick and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Vaporizing and Burning Hydrocarbon Oils; and we dodeclare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to an improvement in apparatus for vaporizing and burning hydrocarbon oils, and is more particularly adapted for use in connection with a cooking-stove.

The object of the invention is to provide a device with burners so arranged as to direct the flame to various parts of the stove, such as directly beneath the front and rear openings of the top and against the oven-wall, and to provide such burners with valves, whereby any one or. more of them may be shut off while others are in use, the burners being adapted to serve the function of regenerating the gas on its travel to the point of ignition.

A further object of the invention is to so arrange the oil-conducting pipes with respect to the cylinder or reservoir as to fill the office of generating and regenerating pipes.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of our improved burner removed from the fire box of the stove. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation taken from the opposite end. Fig. A is a side elevation, and Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view.

Referring to the said drawings by letter, A indicates the cylinder, which may be of sheet metal or other suitable material and of a size according to the capacity of the fire-box in which it is to be placed.

B indicates a pipe which leads from a suitable oil-reservoir, and is provided with a T- coupling a, as shown, and leading from this T-coupling is a pipe I), which is tapped into one end of the cylinder A.

Secured to the depending branch of the T- function of preventing the oil from drip-' ping, the said pipe being so arranged as to direct the flame beneath and around the cyl-' inder, and also against the pipes, as will be presently explained.

Leading from the opposite end of the cylinder A and connected therewith by an elbow f is a horizontal pipe E, and this-horizontal pipe is connected by means of an elbow g with a longitudinal upper pipe F, from the opposite end of which depends avertical pipe G, and leading from the lower end of this vertical pipe is a horizontal pipe H,which lies close 7 to the cylinder beneath the same and slightly to the front thereof.- This lower horizontal pipe is connected at the opposite end ofthe cylinder with a transverse pipe I, the connection being made by elbow-joints. Leading from the opposite end of this transverse end pipe I is a lower horizontal pipe K, arranged parallel to the pipe H beneath the cylinder, and this pipe K is connected at its opposite end by means of a vertical pipe L at the rear end of the cylinder.

Leading from the upper end of the vertical pipe L is an upper longitudinal pipe M, from the opposite end of which depends a vertical pipe N, and from the lower end of this verti-v cal pipe N is a longitudinal pipe P,which lies directly beneath the cylinder and between the pipes G and K. At the opposite end of this lower horizontal pipe P is a T-coupling Q, from the lower branch of which is connected by means of an elbow h a horizontal burner tube or pipe R, which assumes a po- ICG sition beneath the cylinder and approximately parallel to the primary burner-tube A. Leading from the upper branch of this T-coupling Q is a shortvertical pip'e S,which is connected by means of an elbow-coupling t'with a forwardly-directed transverse pipe T, and the opposite end of this pipe T is connected by means of an elbow-coupling 7a with a vertically-depending branch U, which is connected by means of an elbow Z with a forward longitudinal pipe V, from which latter pipe the various burners are carried and controlled by cocks, as will be presently explained. At one end of this forward longitudinal pipe V is a regulating-cock W, from which leads a transverse pipe m, and from the opposite end of this transverse pipe m is connected by means of an elbow 'n a rearward lower longitudinal pipe or burner-tube X, the jet-apertures of which latter pipe are in its rear side, so as to direct the flame issuing therefrom to the rearportion of the stove or against the wall of the oven. This forward longitudinalpipe V is also provided along its length on its upper side with four or more regulating-cocks Y, which are designed to control the flow-of vapor leading to the various burners, as will be presently explained. The two outer cocks Y on this pipe V have connected with them the lateral burners Z. These burners, which are designed mainly for the forward openings in the top plate of the stove, are looped at their outer ends, as shown at p, and provided with one or more jet-apertures q, the jet-apertures being in the return branch, as shown, and directly beneath the horizontal branch 4, so that the flame before rising to the top of the stove will come in contact with the pipe carrying the vapor to the burner and consequently regenerate the same.

Leading from the two inner cocks on the pipe V are burners t, which are of a construction similar to the burners p, and said burners are connected with the regulating-cocks by means of long branches u, so that the burners may be carried rearwardly beneath the rear openings of the stove-top. These burners are connected with thecocks by means of elbows, as shown, and are thereby adapted to be moved horizontally and laterally.

From the construction illustrated it will be seen that We have pipes encircling the cylinder both at its side and end walls, and, as these pipes are arranged within the flamepipes or burner-tubes, they serve as regenerating-pipes for the vapor.

In operation the cock 0 is first opened, when the oil from the main reservoir passing into the cylinder will pass down and into the prime burner-tube, where it will be taken up by the asbestus. After a sufficient quantity of the oil has been absorbed by the asbestus, the fire is applied at that point, when the flame issuing therefrom'will strike the cylinder from beneath, and consequently the numerous regenerating-pipes surrounding the cylinder, the object of this pipe D being to primarily heat the oil in the cylinder A and serve as a prime generator for the vapor passing through the regenerating-pipe. The cock 0 may then be turned off, when the vapor will pass out of the opposite end of the cylinder through the elbow f, thence through the pipe E, thence through the pipe F, thence through the pipe G, thence throughthe pipe H, thence through the pipe I, thence through the pipe K to the pipe L, thence through the pipe M, to the pipe N, to the pipe P, and through the T-coupling Q to the bottom burner-tube R, and through the opposite end of said T-coupling to the pipe S, and thence through the horizontal pipe T and the vertical pipe Uto the pipe V, carrying the regulating-cocks to the burners. From this pipe V the flow to the burners may be governed, and any one or more of the burners brought into use, as desired. The cock W controls the rear burner-tube X, while the cocks Y control the flow of vapor to the burners Z and T, respectively.

Having described our invention, what we claim is- 1. In a vaporizer and burner, the combination, with the vaporizing-cylinder for holding oil, of a pipe leading therefrom and carrying a plurality of cocks, and the burner-tubes secured to the cooks and adapted to be adjusted horizontally and laterally, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the oil-vaporizin g cylinder, of the supply-pipe leading intoone end thereof and carrying a T-coupling anda primary burner arranged beneath the cylinder and connected with the T-coupling and having a cock, and the front and rear laterally-adjustable burners supplied from the oilvaporizing cylinder, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the oil-vaporizing cylinder, of the supply-pipe, a primary burnertube arranged beneath the cylinder and connected with the supply-pipe, heating-pipes arranged around the side and end walls of the cylinder, a pipe communicating with the heating-pipes and having cocks, and a lower rear horizontal burner tube or pipe leading from this latter pipe and having a cock and upper front and rear burners adapted to be horizontally and laterally adjusted for the openings in a stove-top, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the oil-vaporizing cylinder, of the forward horizontal pipe having cocks, as described, the forward top burners z, and the rear top burners 25, secured to said cocks, whereby said burners may be brought beneath the stove-openings in the top thereof, substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with the oil-vaporizing cylinder, of the heating-pipe E, leading from the end of the cylinder transversely thereof, thence horizontally at F, thence vertically at G, then horizontally beneath the cylinder at H, thence transversely at I, horizontally and parallel with H and K, thence vertically at and the front and rear top burners each havthe opposite end of the cylinder at L, thence ing a cock, substantially as specified. horizontally above the cylinder at M, thence In testimony whereof we affixour signatures veticallyband at the opposite {and of the cylin presence of two witnesses. 5 in er at thence horizontal y beneath the cylinder and between the pipes H and K at P, where it communicates the burner R with the forward horizontal pipe V, carrying the Witnesses: cooks, the rear horizontal burner leading AUGUST BECKER, 10 from one end of the pipe carrying the cocks, FRED DETROY. 

